Festivals

Each festival has its own unique set of challenges. Meticulous planning, experience of crowd behaviour and being ready to react, whilst remembering the enjoyment of the audience, is why AP is a continual presence at some of the UK's most loved events.

The Forest Tour was launched in 2001 with Jools Holland and the Levellers performing at four participating Forestry Commission sites. Over the years the tour has grown in stature and the Forestry Commission is now a major promoter of summer concerts.

July and August sees the 1980s return to Henley-on-Thames, Capesthorne Hall, and Scone Palace in Perthshire, as the annual two-day Rewind festival brings legwarmers, mullets and ra-ra skirts briefly back into fashion.

Around 140,000 people and hundreds of attractions are placed into several thousand acres of prime English farmland for a weekend and, without very carefully managed safety and stewarding, there is the potential for problems.